Antedating of "Geologist"

[Fred Shapiro]

geologist (OED 1795)

1792 Albanis Beaumont _Travels Through the Rhaetian Alps_ 8 (Eighteenth
Century Collections Online)  The geologist will do well to examine the
coast.

Fred Shapiro


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